Forged AEB-L

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Steve Beckwith

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I have been looking at a knifemakers web site today that is advertising that all of their knives are forged AEB-L. The chef's knives and kitchen knives all show forging marks along the spine similar to what I and a lot of others have done but I have always used carbon steel. My question is, is AEB-L able to be forged in a way similar to carbon steel?
 
If you think about it all steel is forged from very large billets at the mill. But that being said yes you can forge stainless but it's tricky and requires treatments after to get the grain and other things back to normal. On air hardening steels this takes a long time in the oven, like 15-30 hrs. With how picky AEBL is already I don't know if I would forge it. I would be interested in knowing who it it that says thy are doing this. I do know that Salem uses AEBL in his San-Mia so he would be a better person to ask.
 
I think that I saw the very same website. or a very similar one. I also saw a knife that was claimed to be forged 12C27 and this was on the website of a pretty respected kitchen knife purveyor.
 
Isn't it fairly often used it stainless damacus? I know I've seen it used a number of times before in it.


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I can't speak for the makers in question, but I do know that out there in the big wide world, forged fish is hot and sometimes it actually involves hitting a hot blank with a hammer a few times as opposed to some kind of stamped or whacked textured finish. I have seen soe guys charging top dollar for a water jet cut bank that was whacked a few times along the spine and had the edge thinned down a bit with a hammer and called forged.
 
Yes and I'm sure that there is a very good reason that a hell of a lot fewer guys make that stuff compared to carbon damascus. ;)
coldsteelburns said:
Isn't it fairly often used it stainless damacus? I know I've seen it used a number of times before in it.


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jdm61 said:
Yes and I'm sure that there is a very good reason that a hell of a lot fewer guys make that stuff compared to carbon damascus. ;)
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Good point, but I guess I wasn't speaking so much about how hard it is to forge or forge weld, but more so if it's able to be forged without screwing up the steel too badly.

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Upon looking at the web site again, it shows someone at the anvil with a completely profiled hidden tang blade which is at red heat. Possibly they are texturing the blade as jdm61 suggests and not really forging the blade. At any rate, they are asking close to 5 bills for these things. I have a little AEB-L, I'm going to try forging it just for grins.
 
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